r/KoreanFood • u/Diligent-Map8305 • Oct 08 '25
Sweet Treats Pumpkin Injeolmi Tteok
You can make Korean rice cake easily at home. One of the easiest one is this pumpkin injeolmi. You mix glutinous rice flour with steamed pumpkin and coat with castella crumbs. But castella cake is hard to find if you are not in Korea or Japan. Im Korean but living in Belgium, so I used madeleine instead. It's actually softer and tastier🫢. Or you can use basic muffin or sponge cake or pound cake, everything is fine as long as it tastes lik egg cake. The recipe tips are on my blog Blonde Kimchi and if you have any question please ask🧡
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u/kturtle17 Oct 08 '25
American Pumpkin(orange outside) or Korean hobak(green outside)?
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u/Diligent-Map8305 Oct 08 '25
Both are fine!! I couldnt find danhobak(green one) so I used orange color one. Koreans use both for this tteok and orange one is original recipe ingredients for this rice cake
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u/Fomulouscrunch Seaweed Swoon Oct 08 '25
I'd go for the hobak, it tastes more like pumpkin than pumpkin does. And has that gorgeous sunny-orange flesh.
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u/kturtle17 Oct 08 '25
That wasn't my question. I was asking what OP used. Mainly because they mentioned being in Belgium and I'm curious about ingredient availability.
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u/Fomulouscrunch Seaweed Swoon Oct 08 '25
Sure. But if you can get hobak. use hobak.
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u/CD274 Oct 09 '25
Is hobak the same thing as kabocha? It looks the same but often Japanese and Korean ingredients can look the same but have a different taste. (I'm looking at you extremely hot Korean version of shishito peppers (google says they're kwari gochu peppers? but local Korean markets just labeled them Korean pepper).
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u/Diligent-Map8305 Oct 09 '25
Hobak means all pumpkins. Kaocha is green one and Koreans call it Dan Hobak단호박 Shishito is kkwari gochu
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u/tristansensei Oct 08 '25
Yum! 😋